In Pictures: Highlights from the 2009 Google Summer of Code

The architecture of the OpenPrinting web-service will be overhauled to alleviate resource consumption, OpenJDK will become LSB compliant, and setting-up an access point will become easier in Linux under some of the [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/linux_foundation|11 projects|The Linux Foundation projects]] run for the Linux Foundation.bio credits: Wikipedia

The Mozilla Project has [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/mozilla|10 initiatives|Mozilla Project initiatives]] for the program this year, including automated duplicate detection for Bugzilla; integration of pre-existing, third-party extensibility into Ubiquity; and improvements to the Register Allocator of Trace Monkey.

[[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/opensuse|Nine projects|OpenSUSE projects]] will be sponsored by OpenSUSE including porting from openSUSE to ARM; an implementation of the YaST education module; synchronisation with mobile devices; and porting openSUSE to MIPS.

Drupal will receive a peer review platform for its forum,
and API integration for Google Analytics under [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/drupal|18 sponsored projects|Drupal projects]] for the Summer of Code this year. Others include: completion of version control integration and deployment to Drupal.org; a usability testing suite; and plans to 'make Drupal smart'.

Integration with the Amazon EC2 cloud service; automatic debug package creation and handling; and rewriting the Debian autobuilding infrastructure are all part of Debian's [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/debian|11 projects|Debian projects]] accepted in this year's Google Summer of Code.

An advanced GUI for brush dynamics and an improved nonlinear resampler with built-in antialiasing are some of the [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/gimp|6 projects|GIMP projects]] sponsored by the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Other initiatives include a "fast adaptive resampler tailored for transformations which mostly downsample", and some improvements to the foreground selection tool.

GIT will get [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/git|2 projects|GIT projects]] this year, which will add caching support to git-daemon, and an interactive graph GUI.

The GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME) will sponsor [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/gnome|25 projects|GNOME projects]] that will make conduits work as a daemon; integrate bugzilla into pulse; add support for Nautilus to Google docs; allow GNOME-Sudoku to be played with IM contacts; and improving the DVB experience with GNOME DVB daemon.

[[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/joomla|Eighteen projects|Joomla! projects]] are being sponsored by Joomla! in the program this year. Error handling will be improved; a common gateway will be added for Joomla to allow Elgg and Wordpress to connect; some enhanced frontend editing will be conducted and work will be done on native Joomla multisite support.

Some of the [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/python|30 projects|Python projects]] on the cards for Python include analysis of code coverage and improvements to the core Python3k testing framework; a new keyring library; support for server-side history and roster versioning in Gajim; better C++ support for Cython; and maintenance for IDLE and Tkinter.

There are seven [[xref:http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/php|PHP projects|PHP projects]] in the Google Summer of Code this year, such as improvements to run-tests.php, Bug tracker and phD; and decision and path coverage to Xdebug code coverage instrumentation.

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